Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman) Quotes
Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell's Island? I said I could and I would. And I did.
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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I think that if you do want to be a fighter, then you need to work harder than everybody else and make sure that you surround yourself with good people, especially if you're a woman. You've got to find a team that takes you seriously as a female fighter and is not going to rush you into the ring before you're ready.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.
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One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.
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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.
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I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it; I'd start playing.
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I'm a normal person and I don't have superpowers! I do normal things, too.
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It's kind of a funny way to put it, but if you want to study a dynamic economic system, what you'd like to be able to do is focus on the linkages, say, between asset markets and the macro economy without having to model everything at the same time.
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I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.
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Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.
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Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.
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New York has influenced me a lot in terms of my own independence. I'm really struck by the idea of authenticity, and I think New York embodies that idea, even though people are like, 'I miss the old New York.' But at its core, it has this natural, authentic energy. L.A. lacks that idea; it's painted over.
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It's not very fun to do spectroscopy.
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I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.
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I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others. I suffered myself to use intemperate language to my wife. At length, I even offered her personal violence.
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Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you’re trying to say on stage... Success makes life easier. It doesn’t make living easier.
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With the amount of money I have, it's difficult raising children the way I was raised.
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When I'm singing the blues, I'm singing life.
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Strike one is a big, big pitch-you can do a lot after you get strike one, no matter how you get it.
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Nobody recognizes that a bookstore or library can also be a drowning polar bear. And in this country US, magazines, newspapers, and bookstores are drowning polar bears. And if people can't see that or don't want to talk about it, I don't understand them at all.
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Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell's Island? I said I could and I would. And I did.
